LING 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Code Talker, U.S. Route 3, Algic Languages
10 Nov 2016
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~50 north american language families: just because the language family survives doesn"t mean that all the members do, eskimo-aleut. 10 living languages; approximately 108,000 speakers: na-dene. 40 living languages; approximately 207,000 speakers: algic. 41 languages; approximately 215,000 speakers: iroquoian. Eskimo-aleut: alaska, aleutian islands, canada, greenland, russia, includes. But yup"ik is both dependent and head marking. Clause a group of words that center around a verb. Possessive phrase a group of two nouns where one owns the other: english= prounouns ( my/ yours ) and genitive markers ( "s . Heads more important words in clauses/phrases: verbs in a clause, the thing being possessed. Dependents less important words in the clauses/phrases: subject/objects in a clause, the possessor. Dependent-marking if the possessive marker is on a dependent. Head-marking if the possessive marker is on a head. Jack drinks rum every day head marking. Head-marking the thing being possessed is the head.
